Re:Dell: Return to office or give up promotions
by higeorge13 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:43PM
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Why just elders? I see modern start ups and companies, ran by 30/40yo C-suite mandating return to the office.
Re:Dell: Return to office or give up promotions
by j45 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:01PM
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This is always funny to hear and I agree.
I have worked remote for almost 20 years.
Just because remote is new to the masses doesn’t mean remote or hybrid is new.
Some companies started in person.
They are only so efficient in person let alone remote
Re:Dell: Return to office or give up promotions
by olliej on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:48PM
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Elders here I think means “the kind of people who care more about personal status than any actual value to the company”, so that means most C-suite asses.
Re:Dell: Return to office or give up promotions
by haltIncomplete on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:57PM
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They learned it from somewhere.
Re:Dell: Return to office or give up promotions
by al_borland on Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:20PM
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I think a lot of it has to do with justifying real estate holding, which have likely fallen significantly in value since the pandemic, as remote work had increased. Selling at the worst time is likely out of the question, so they try to make it worth holding on to.
It’s all contrived political points; contracts, socialized norms the elders in charge refuse to negotiate.
The stubbornness and selfishness of the gerontocracy, to serve the dying and dead is gross. Some kind of mental illness fueled by their huffing leaded gas and growing up in world war/Cold War paranoia made it so they cannot escape the idea life is 24/7 militarized economic production.